Why Butter is better , if we CAN use it.

[Guest guest]

We are still new to this diet, but I wanted to add something as to

why (assuming these gf/cf kids could have butter...and possibly

cream???) butter is better than ANY of it's substitutes, aside from

cold pressed olive oil. I don't know if any of you have read a book

called " Nourishing Traditions " by Sally Fallon, but it's amazing. In

it she destroys, with science, the myth that animal fat is bad...

specifically butter. She talks about why she thinks our present day

MILK is causing so many allergies ...because it is mass produced and

thus pasteurized killing all of the ENZYMES it naturally contains to

help a human body DIGEST IT! Doesn't that make sense to those of

us!! YES!

Anyway, organic butter, preferably unpastuerized, (but she notes that

pasturization is not so bad of an issue with butter as with straight

milk)is the best most assimilatible source of vitamin A. Fallon's co

author, a woman named Dr. Enig (who has specialized in studying

FATS her whole career) wrote a LENGTHY chapter on fats/lipids and

talks about why saturated fat like those in butter or that new

spectrum palm oil shortening are GOOD why cold pressed virgin olive

oil is GOOD and why most of the other polyunsaturated fats are not

that great. Please by or borrow the book. The nutritional info is

worth the price of $25. Whole Foods Mkts sell it as does Amazon.

I am part of a Biodynamic/Organic food coop. We are able to get raw,

unpasteurized yogurt...loaded with enzymes and natural probiotics!!!

I can also get raw cultured butter, and raw ranch cheese. Because of

federal laws tho we can't get the raw milk. However, over a year ago

we went up the Farmer Hugh's farm and had Bambi's (his one and only

cow which is GRASS fed...NOT GRAIN fed milk cow). It was a light

butter color and SOOOOOOOO GOOD. I asked Hugh why it was so yellow

and

he said it was the vitamin A from the grass (rye, clover ). I wonder

if the cows that don't produce this so called " bad casein " are

pasture

(ie:GRASS) fed cows. Maybe coz our kids shouldn't be eating certain

grains, any milk products they ever had should not be coming from

grain fed cows. BTW, cows really should just eat grass.

Anyway, thought I'd just help " churn " this conversation up

some more...no pun intended.LOL Oh, one more thing, any of you who

are vegetarians should not read Fallon's book unless you are serious

about someone really challenging your opinions regarding food. A

friend of mine who's been a vegetarian for 10+ years is now eating

beef, chicken etc after reading this book and feels better than she

has in years. She is the one of the several people who told me about

the book, although I am not a vegetarian.